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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Türkiye	Congo - Kinshasa	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	65,020	51,181	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	65,949	52,782	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	66,869	54,453	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	67,728	56,170	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	68,541	57,860	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	69,366	59,599	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	70,224	61,474	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	71,106	63,479	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	71,992	65,590	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	72,909	67,800	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	73,922	70,114	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	75,054	72,550	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	76,164	75,138	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,141	77,792	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	78,138	80,534	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	79,199	83,368	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	80,262	86,229	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	81,350	89,193	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	82,412	92,209	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	83,535	95,232	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	84,737	98,320	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	85,564	101,499	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	86,346	104,767	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	87,201	108,171	34,081

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.